Word: glamorous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relatively weak, such as the South and the Midwest. The NFL may continue to attract many of the superstars from larger and more visible college football programs, but the USFL will attract many who simply enjoy playing football and do it well. Further, the USFL, can ill afford the "glamor" of a pro football associated on occasion with gambling and drugs...
...hasn't been. Rape is a crime with a long history, and, it appears, a promising future. Like most problems that won't go away, it lacks glamor. It is dismissed as a "women's problem," and it is ignored until a particularly brutal incident like this New Bedford rape brings it with a crash into our headlines and consciousnesses...
Aside from the glamor of conservation and the excitement of unique discoveries, the Center's specialists must often do the more tedious and undesirable work of cleaning pieces of art. Paintings often become infested with worms, beetles, and other pests. Lab workers recently removed an 11th century Chinese polychrome wood statue from exhibition at the Fogg for the first time since 1928. They had to fumigate the piece in a special lab to rid it of powder-post beetles...
Harvard switched from club to varsity level in 1980, and it's the need to play catch-up that has kept Harvard second to Brown. There have been no special signals sent out that water polo is any different from the other non-glamor teams that win in the obscurity of Harvard. As a result, attempts to recruit have had little luck: Couch Pike tells how one year he wrote to 18 application who had some polo experience to tell them about the program. Of those 18 three ware accepted; of those three two chose Suuford and one went...
...from gripping accounts of such events as the Kennedy assassination to philosophical reflections on the news business makes for a rather tame climax. But a book about this unique career in TV news would not be complete without some explanation of why a man would refuse the salary and glamor of the network anchor chair. And in spite of the plodding conclusion. MacNeil's book remains on balance a lively and informative work...